Wow, this is irresponsibly bad journalism. You're talking about women voters but only mention white women's votes specifically. You treat African American voters as a monolith but separate white voters by gender. This is so, so terrible.https://twitter.com/jonallendc/status/940867082501218309 …
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I think turnout among African Americans is the much bigger story here. But I still think not talking about African American women specifically in a story where you say "women" turned the tide of an election is just bad practice
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But more to the point, the story was about women of all colors rejecting Moore. The lede was not race-specific and the first data point was 58 percent of women (ALL women). voted for Jones. I broke out white women because they voted so differently than they usually do in Alabama.
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If that was the story, why didn't you write that story? You wrote the "white women" story. If they were the only group worthy of breaking out, you didn't write the story "about women of all colors"
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I think I did write that story. The headline is women, the lede is women, the main data point is 58 percent of women - all women. All that said, I understand your point and appreciate you making it.
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And I will just add, regarding your point about white women, white men were nearly twice as likely to vote for Jones than Obama in 2012, so I'm not really sure the story of change in white women's votes in comparison to white men's votes is all that notable either
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98% might be monolithic, but in the actual facts of this election it also turned the tide. You had to work really hard to give credit for Moore’s defeat to white women-which you unequivocally do in the penultimate paragraph-when 63% of them voted for him.
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What was the drop in WW support and why is it more of a story?
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